Filing-case.



E. E. D'E BURGER.

FILING CASE.

-APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26, 19X6.

Patented 0%. 2,1917.

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ERNEST E. BURGER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF ToBURTON E. WHITE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FILING-CASE.

Application filed June 26, 1916. Serial No. 105,979.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST E. DE Bonsai v a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State ofIndiana, have invented a certain new and useful Filing-Case; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which like letters refer to like parts.

The object of this invention is the attainment of greater convenience infiling and handling record cards and the like, and increasing thecapacity so as to reduce the size of cabinets for filing such recordcards.

The chief feature of the invention consists in having verticallydisposed plates or frames slidable horizontally into and out of asuitable cabinet, said plates or frames having on both sides thereof apair of vertical guides to receive transverse resilient card holdingstrips which are easily put into and removable from the guides of saidplates and when in the guides rest upon each other and close togetherand are arranged so as to place one or more cards on each card holdingstrip so that the cards when filed will be arranged in a vertical serieswith the upper edges of the cards exposed for showing the indicatingnames or data on the cards, while the main portion of each card willextend down behind the next lower card so that the main data or matteron the card will not be exposed.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from theaccompanying drawings and the following description and claims:

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device centrallyand vertically broken away and with the right-hand portion in verticalsection. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, withone card holding panel drawn outward and a part of the guideway beingshown in section. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3-8 of Fig.2 with a part broken away and a part shown in altered position by dottedlines.

There is a cabinet casing 10 having a bottom, top, back and two sideswith the front adapted to be open. In the bottom and top there aregrooves or guideways 11 extending from the rear wall to the front,

but, closed at the front'by the flanges 12, as shown in Fig. 2.

A card holding panel 13 is provided, one

Specification of Letters Patent; Patented Uct. 1917,

for each pair of grooves 11 and is a metal plate, as shown in Fig. 3,and vertically d1sposed and at'its lower and upper rear corners hassecured to it vertically extending pivot pins 1 1 which project, andmove in said grooves 11, as seen in Fig. 2, whereby the panel 13 can heslid back and forth into and out of the casing 10. The bottom and top ofthe casing'extend somewhat farther forward than the side walls thereof,as

shown'in Figs. 2 and 3, so that when one" of the panels 13 is drawnoutward to its limit, as insai d figures, it can be swung aroundlaterally, if desired, in either direc tion, to the right or to theleft. Also there is a hole 15 in the top of the casing communicatingwith the outer end of the groove 11 in the top, so that if desired, thepanel can be readily removed from the casing by lifting it vertically sothat the upper pivot pin 14: will extend upward through the hole 15 andthus enable the lower pivot to escape over the front flange 12 and thenby lowering the panel, it will be separated from the cabinet or casing.And by reversing this operation, the panel can be inserted into thecasing.

- On each side of each panel 13, as shown in Fig. 3, there is a pairofoppositely disposed vertically extending guides 16, one

near each lateral edge of the panel. The

lower end of each guide is, however, closed, as indicated by dottedlines in Fig. 2. Card holding strips 17 made of spring metal. and narroware placed transversely in said guides by means of end plates 18 securedto the ends of the strip 17 of sufficient thickness to fit in theguides, but loose enough to be moved up and down readily. The plates 18are thicker than the strip 17 so as to leave a space between the stripand the panel to. receive cards suspended from a strip above. These cardholding strips can be inserted or removed, as shown in Fig. 3, where oneof them is shown curved in the process of being inserted or removed.When the strip is straightened back into place, as shown on the otherside of the panel 13 in Fig. 3, it will extend parallel with the paneland close to it. As seen in Fig. 2, the end plates 18 are widervertically than the cross strips 17 and they rest upon each other inplates of the lower strip, as shown. This spaces said strips 17 at theright distance apart. Each strip 17 has a hook or pin 19 on it whereby acard 20 is hung. The number of pins 19 for each card may be as de sired.But when the cards are hung in place, they overlap each other, as shownin Fig. 2, with a sufiicient portion of each card projecting above thenext lower card so as to show the desired indicating data foridentifying the card while the mass of read ing material on the cardwill extend behind the neXt lower card and be obscured thereby. However,any card can be removed without disturbing any of the other cards, bymerely slipping it off its pin and lifting it vertically. The width ofthe cards is slightly less than the distance between each pair of guides16.

From the foregoing, it is seen that in compact form a very large numberof record cards may be filed and in such a fashion as to discloseidentifying data on each one to make the same readily accessible. Therewill be one series of cards on each side of each panel 13 and since thecards fit flat against the sides of the panel, each panel with itsseries of cards will be very narrow and not occupy much space in thecabinet.

That enables the grooves in the panels to be made close together wherebya large number of panels may be placed in a small cabinet.

The invention claimed is:

1. A filing cabinet including a casing, vertically disposed panelsmovable edge-wise into and out of said casing, a pair of ver ticalparallel guides on the side of each panel, transverse strips made ofresilient material and having widened plates at their ends insertible insaid guides so that the end plates will rest upon each other, and anoutwardly projecting pin on said strip on which the record card or thelike may be hung.

2. A filing cabinet including a casing, vertically disposed panelsmovable edge-wise into and out of said casing, a pair of verticalparallel guides on the side of each panel, transverse strips made ofresilient material and having widened plates at their ends insertible insaid guides so that the end plates will rest upon each other and saidplates being thicker than said strips so as to leave a space between thestrips and the panel to receive cards suspended from strips above, and apin on said strip for suspending a record card or the like.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature.

ERNEST E. DE BURGER.

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